French multi-instrumentalist Colleen (Cécile Schott) is fearless in her willingnessto explore new sounds and new ways of creating music as a solo performer. Onher new album A ?ame my love, a frequency, she introduces the most drasticchange to her music since she began singing on her fourth album, setting asidethe viola da gamba she is known for in exchange for all electronic instrumentation- Moog pedals and Critter and Guitari synthesizers.Words used to describe her muse Arthur Russell are equally applicable to Colleen.Schott’s compositions can be in turn pop or experimental, vocal or instrumental,and acoustic or electronic. She has drawn on the baroque sounds of a classicalinstrument using the most modern pedals and looping techniques. Shape shiftingas she does, the pieces are always distinctly her strong and utterly unique musicalvoice. A constant across Colleen’s albums are delicate extended melodies, minutelydetailed soundscapes, and explorative unbounded compositions. Colleen’s work isa direct result of her core belief that in order to keep growing as an artist, you needto continue to be willing to experiment and to embrace drastic changes.The music of A ?ame my love, a frequency is the closest Colleen has come to aconcept album, a re?ection upon one year in her life that began in the Autumn of2015. The album‘s central theme is the inescapable fact that life and death alwayswalk hand in hand. Schott is an avid bird watcher and her home and studio on thecoast of Spain allow for frequent trips out into the wilds. As any naturalist knows,extreme beauty and vitality go hand in hand with brutality. This symbiosis was mademore personal when, on the way back from visiting a very ill relative in France, shedecided to spend the night in her former home of Paris in order to take her violabow for repair at a luthier in the Republique area. It was late afternoon and sheremembers the beauty of Paris and people sitting and enjoying the cafés. That wasNovember 13th and a mere 4 hours later these very same cafés were the scene ofutter terror and death.A few weeks after the events, Colleen started composing the songs that make up thealbum. She recorded each song live with minimal edits and vocals were recordedwithout overdubs, creating a symbiosis between the machine and the performerthat mirrors the album’s core concept. The personal narrative of the year inquestion yields a more vulnerable sound than any previous recordings by Colleen.“Separating” is an emotional response to being overwhelmed by the inevitability ofdeath. Feelings of fear are never far from feelings of joy as they are in “Winter dawn”with its propulsive thump and ominous lyrics “I came home with a fstful of fear,”that manage to shift towards hope with “Love alone is your home.” Joy and hope arestrongly present throughout the album, the catalyst that lifts us out of the darknessas inevitably as night to day. We are shown the wonderment of “Another world,”and through the metaphors of light, shown joy as in the title track. A ?ame my love,a frequency is an album that fnds optimism in the face of tribulation, a meditationon humanity’s ability to prevail. It is a beautiful, complex album by a singular andremarkable musician.

SALES POINTSColleen has been praised by Pitchfork, Uncut, Mojo, TheWire, Magnet, FACT, Stereogum, The New York Times,Exclaim, Relix, Resident Advisor, Paste, The Quietus, andmoreColleen will tour extensively with her completelyreconfgured synthesizer setup, including sets atChicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and PhilaMOCA inPhiladelphiaColleen performed earlier this year at Moogfest where shealso held a workshop explaining her pedal techniques.Moog has partnered with Thrill Jockey to help promote thealbum and host Colleen at their factoryFeatures for the new album already confrmed with Magnet,Resident Advisor, and XLR8R in addition to a Dublab studiosessionLP pressed on virgin vinyl with artworked inner sleeve andfree download coupon. A very limited supply pressed onwhite vinyl. CD version in mini-LP style gatefoldColleen has performed high profle in-studio sessions forboth Seattle’s KEXP and New York’s WNYCColleen’s 2015 album Captain of None was featured oncountless end of year lists including NPR Music, BBC6 Music, The Quietus, Uncut, Bleep, and Vinyl Factory“Exquisite, precise music made of unlikely inputs…Theresult is like a heart that pumps blood and also data.” - NewYork Times“It is a wondrous concoction, simultaneously ancient andmodern, brought together by technology and the ear of awoman who unites epochs.” - NPR Music“carves out and inhabits a persuasively exotic world of echothat invites total immersion.” - Mojo (4/5) Erhältlich ab 03.11.2017Getaggt mit: Neue Produkte